AirLink info
It sure is a neat little program, no?
I can imagine how it saved you time. In my mind it (and others like it)
may be a suitable way for use consumers to use 'off the shelf' video/audio
equip in an amiga automated way. Anything that you can do with the remote
of a piece of equip you can now do via the Amiga. And controllable via
many progs, since it is ARexx controlled.
For instance, I am the new owner of a Pioneer 3090 Laser disk player. I'm
just starting to work with it, but so far have managed to get it to do
chapter search, frame search, single step, both sides play, freeze frames,
etc…. all controlled via AirLink. The cost of this LD is @ $800-900. As
far as I can tell, it would be in the $2000+ range (ie. the Pioneer 8000
LD) to get similar features that can be controlled directly via the serial
port. So long as the IR control is accurate (and so far it seems so), then
this is much more cost effective. Only real problem is that you cannot get
info back from the LD player, but if the machine is totally under program
control I can deal with that I think).
Same thing is true re video control (ie. control TV's from it), VCR
control, etc. I don't know of much more the PC-VCR does (for example) than
the Mitsubishi U-70/82 for instance? And you can certainly pick those up
for less.
I KNOW that there are other differences between professional gear and
consumer gear, but at least the AirLink allows many more of us 'average'
folk to explore computer controlled audio/video than would be able to
afford to otherwise.
DPaint? 🙂
–jp–seattle–